Hi all, please check out my latest gaming video.
This week I’ll be playing “Mental Health: The Game”
A frustrating experience that could do with a lot more user support. pic.twitter.com/SVX9dJHkbO
— Aidan Fitzmaurice (@FancyVegasPro) November 9, 2020
In fairness.
Previously: Aidan Fitzmaurice on Broadsheet
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US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Hickory, North Carolina, two days before the US Presidential election
This morning.
US President Donald Trump is planning to bring back his large-scale rallies that were a hallmark of his presidential run, but these will be focused on his “ongoing litigation” as he challenges the results of last week’s election.
Via Fox News:
Trump’s campaign plans to take less traditional path to challenging the results of the election, including holding “a series of Trump rallies” focused on the campaigns ongoing legal efforts in numerous states across the country.
Along with the rallies, Trump is also planning to use obituaries of people who allegedly voted but are actually dead as evidence of the voter fraud he’s been claiming. The campaign is also sending recount teams Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, with Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., heading up the effort in the Peach State.
Earlier: Schadenfraud
The currrent affairs podcast presented by William Campbell (right) meets Kate McGrew (left) of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland.
William writes:
The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland calls for prostitution to be decriminalised in Ireland, including removing the legal prohibition on buying sex, to protect the safety of the sex workers. I ask if this would that protect vulnerable people at risk of getting involved in the sex trade.
Listen: here
Meanwhile…
Fancy a job offer with no pay, lots of criticism and no glory?
William has run the Here’s How podcast for nearly six years, and now he’s got an opening for an obedient slave a valued collaborator who could co-produce, co-present, or both, on the podcast.
William writes:
The idea is to work remotely so you’d need access to a computer and internet connection, as well as having a working knowledge of Irish current affairs. You don’t need any technical skills because (and this really is the only upside) you’ll get full training on audio production and getting a podcast online. Send your details to podcast@HeresHow.ie.
Last night.
Six-One News on RTÉ One.
Derdiedas writes:
Mayo for S.A.M? (Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá?)
State of play in remaining swing states in the US Presidential election as of 4pm
Decision Desk HQ projects that @JoeBiden has won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes for a total of 273.
Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America.
Race called at 11-06 08:50 AM EST
All Results: https://t.co/BgcQsEyt3j
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 6, 2020
Joe Biden overtakes President Trump in the vote count in Pennsylvania and Georgia. The presidency hinges on the outcome in key battleground states. #Election2020
FULL COVERAGE: https://t.co/NWYeJuYsamhttps://t.co/Z0h2LfltW3
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 6, 2020
AP EXPLAINS: The @AP has not declared a winner in the battleground state of Pennsylvania because there are tens of thousands of votes left to count in the contest between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. https://t.co/HTmOyQlX8Z https://t.co/VLjs3tcRvO
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 6, 2020
This afternoon.
More as we get it.
Meanwhile…
I’ve tweeted out 3 videos of clear and obvious election fraud. Twitter has deleted each of them. Twitter is interfering in our election!!
— JT Lewis (@thejtlewis) November 6, 2020
“We think there’s going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, so much proof, it’s going to end up perhaps at the highest court in the land, you’ll see. We think there’ll be a lot of litigation, because we cannot have an election stolen like this.”
US President Donald Trump last night.
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
Hmm.
Top Republicans defend Trump on voter fraud claims as concerns grow in the ranks (CNN)
Meanwhile…
I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by. Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2020
Uh oh.
This morning.
UK’s Talk Radio.
“One of the biggest travesties of Covid, not just the sad deaths, has been the use of data…we’ve had made many mistakes.”
Former head of health analysis at the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) Jamie Jenkins speaking to Mike Graham after the British government was forced to reissue key charts used to justify a second lockdown after admitting projected fatalities were overstated.
Last week, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) statistician John Flanagan calculated that 900 and 1,200 people ‘who would otherwise have been alive’ if Covid hadn’t struck died in Ireland up to the beginning of October.
The Department of Health’s number for the same period is in excess of 1,900 deaths.
Covid Graphs Wrong: Death Toll Will Not Surpass First Wave (telegraph)
Previously: Morbid Curiosity
James Joyce with Sylvia Beach, founder of Shakespeare & Co, who published Ulysses in 1922
This afternoon.
Via AP:
Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore, is appealing to readers for support after pandemic-linked losses and France’s spring coronavirus lockdown put the future of the Left Bank institution in doubt.
The English-language bookshop on the Seine River sent an email to customers last week to inform them that it was facing “hard times” and to encourage them to buy a book. Paris entered a fresh lockdown on Oct. 30 that saw all non-essential stores shuttered for the second time in seven months.
…Founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919, Shakespeare & Company became a creative hub for expatriate writers including Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce.
Reflecting on Beach’s decision to publish “Ulysses,” Joyce’s groundbreaking novel of more than 700 pages, Whitman said: “No one else dared publish it in full…She became one of the smallest publishers of one of the biggest books of the century.”
Virus-hit Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co appeals for help (AP)
Don’t worry.
The people who did it want you to know they have your back this time.
Government Buildings. Dublin 2.
This afternoon.
Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe (above) and Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin give an update on the Covid Restrictions Support Scheme.
The scheme will “assist those businesses whose trade has been significantly impacted or temporarily closed as a result of the Covid restrictions’.
Good times.
